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WASHING MACHINE.

No. 350,561. Patented Oct. 12, 1886,;

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WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,561, dated October12, 185.6.

Application filed July 9, 1885. Serial No. 171,097. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Beitknown that we,'BIR'r BINGO and JosEPH A. BINGO, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Mexico, in the county of Audrain and State ofMissouri,havein vented certain new and useful Improvements in\Vash'ing-ltlachines; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

Our invention is an improvement in that class of washing-machines inwhich the articles to be cleaned are subjected to the influence of hotwater and steam while they are being agitated and changed in position topresent the different soiled portions to the active influence of thecleansing elements.

Our machine consists of a box or receptacle for water at a hightemperature, provided with a cover and a rotary receptacle or basket ofcylindrical form, having its bands corrugated and heads reticulated. Thesaid basket is formed of galvanized iron, preferably, and it may beopened and closed by means of a slid ing door, which moves on suitableways fixed upon the body of the said basket. \Vhile the articles arebeing cleansed, during the rotation of the cylinder, it is of importanceto provide within the inclosure a surface as large as possible, againstwhich they may fall, and in our machine we preferably c'orrugate theband of the cylinder in curved or angular lines, '(seen in verticalsection,) so that the effect upon said articles may be the same as thatprod need by the knuckles of a person rubbing them by hand.

In our drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of our machine, with theside of the box broken away to expose one of the vertical disks of thecylindrical receptacle. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of themachine. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the shelves or off setsarranged upon the inner corrugated surface of the receptacle.

Similar referenceletters indicate like parts in all of the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A is a box of rectangular form, adapted toset upon a heater, and provided with a hinged cover, a, and suitablejournal-bearings to receive the shaft of the rotary receptacle. A spigotmay be provided in the box A at some convenient point to discharge thewater aftcrthesamc has served its purpose within the basket orreceptacle.

\Vithin the box A is a cylindrical receptacle, B, provided with asliding door, I), secured upon ways fixed upon the periphery of saidreceptacle. The band C of the cylinder is corrugated, and at intervalsin said corrugations are slots 0, provided for the entrance of the waterand steam within said cylinder.

D D are disks forming the vertical wallsof the cylinder orbasket, andthese are pierced with openings which extend from near thejournal-bearing a to within a very narrow space of the circumference ofthe said disks.

As in our machine we have in. View to offer the greatest opportunity forthe entrance of steam and hot water to the articles, we use heavygalvanized iron in its construction, so that it is practicable to piercethe disks of our receptacle or basket with numerous and long slots,presenting to the eye either curved or straight lines, or a combinationof both. This arrangement of reticulation we consider of greatimportance in the clothes-receptacles of this class of machine, asduring the rotation of the basket the steam and hot water may enter andescape rapidly upon and from the clothing as it is tossed rapidly about.

The cylinder or basket B is provided in the center ofits disks withcollars a, through which is run and to which is secured ashaft, D which,when the said cylinder or receptacle B is in position, bears in thejournal-bearings provided in the sides of the box A. The shaft D isprovided with a crank, if operated by hand, or a pulley, if operated byother power.

0 c are the openings formed in the corrugated band of the receptacle B,and at intervals of sixths or eighths of the perimeter of said cylindermay be formed or provided offsets or shelves f, which serve to assist inturning, positively, the articles with reference to each other, so thatnew points may be constantly presented to the action of steam and waterduring the rotation of the cylinder.

- In view of the state of the art we do not claim, broadly, awashing-machine cylinder corrugated in its band and provided upon theinner surface of same with rubbing-offsets. Neither do we broadly claima cylinder having perforated disks, as we are aware that cylinders havebeen used with small disk-openings for the entrance and exit of thewater and steam.

XVhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, the receptacle for clothes, cylindrical inform, having its band corrugated and pierced with long slots parallelwith said cylinders axis, and having on the inner surface of said bandof'isets f, in combination with disks forming heads to said cylinder,reticulated with radial openings, extending between the edging of saidband and the collars of the journal 01" said receptacle, and a suitableopening and door for same, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the cylindrical rotary clothes-receptacle,corrugated and formed with long rectangular slots in its band, andhaving its disks pierced with radial openings, 20 as set forth, of thebox A. a, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we affix onr signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

BIRT nINeo. JosnPH A. BINGO.

itnesses:

D. D. Woonwann, HARRY 0. SMITH.

